I was wondering if anyone knows how you can overlap a button with a label in HTML.
For example:
Is this easily done with css? I have tried absolute positioning to no avail
Is this what you want?
http://jsfiddle.net/y9dfX/9/
I created a container div with position:relative which contains the button and label. Then i just set the label with position:absolute and added top and left positions. Only drawback is that you have to set the positions manually.
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I created a contact form with a banner at the top of it. I created the entire thing and was planning on moving it to the right, off the screen, so that it will slide onto the screen when it is hovered over. I intended to just wrap a div around all of it and then relatively position it and move it however far I needed it to go to the right to be off the screen. However, when I tried to do this, it made the banner and the contact form box, as well as everything inside of those two elements, show up in a bunch of different random spots around the screen. I figured this was because it applied the relative positioning, as well as the left:100px value I set with it, to every element within the div and that, mixed with the other positioning I had set for each object, caused the weird displacements? Does anyone know how I can move the form and the banner so that they stay attached to each other and everything inside stays where it is?
Here's the JSFiddle where I set up the contact form box and banner: LINK
Thanks for any help
i'm not sure about all your absolute and relative positioning insde of your form - if you dont want to place the elements at very specific points you wouldnt need this.
here's a jsfiddle for what i think you want to have:
https://jsfiddle.net/spmhxteu/
basically you will need to set this for your email wrap
position: absolute;
right: -200px;
and you should set this for your body or whatever is wrapped around
overflow: hidden;
width: 800px; // example
all elements INSIDE your absolute positioned div do not have to be relative or absolute again.
UPDATE: As requested here an absolute positioning inside the element:
https://jsfiddle.net/spmhxteu/1/
Note: Ofcourse your padding etc. of the parent div will not apply on absolute positioning
I have a div with which I display basic user information. The 'search-person' div has a height of 'auto'. This is so that profile pictures can be dynamic in size, up to 170px tall. Now, I would like to have a button displayed over the profile picture, and I thought to add relative positioning to the contents in the div and move it up and under the button, button it doesn't seem to want to work right. What can I do wrong?
here is my problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/C9Zj5/
#wrap {
position: relative
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
Make the #person-wrap position:relative and then the #buttons div position:absolute. That should give you the effect you're looking for.
div containing relative position should contain within another div having absolute position so that it can float correctly
If you set position:absolute to #buttons them you will have the button over the profile picture. Use left and top to positioning the button wherever you want inside #person-wrap.
I'm not sure what you mean with "and I thought to add relative positioning to the contents in the div and move it up and under the button", but if you want to show the info inside #person-wrap you can use position absolute or negative margin.
Aside: Is not a good practice to have div elements inside the link tag. Also why you need a button? Maybe you need to rethink the html structure as well ;)
Is this even possible? The basic setup is a sidebar on the right with div elements in it.
Clicking one of these elements would add a "popout" div, that should be displayed left of the clicked element. The popout contains a variable number of buttons.
I'd like to style it using only CSS, so i can just add the correct HTML elements from my script and have the stylesheet do the layout.
I've attepmted the popout inside the sidebar element, positioned absolutely, but then I cannot make the sidebar element itself scale to be at least as tall as the popout. (The sidebar elements are usually shorter in height than the popout).
I tried putting the popout before the element, and using position absolute, but for some reason the popout will not get wider if i add more buttons, and instead overflows them downwards.
Using position relative on the popout will make it leave empty space where it would have been in the sidebar.
Floating it messes up the width of other sidebar elements.
The sidebar is fixed width. The popout is fixed-height. The buttons are fixed-size. The sidebar elements are full-width but variable-height.
I've lost track of all the different things I've tried. My closest attempt at the moment is in this JsFiddle, where the popout is positioned correctly, but does not grow leftwards, only overflow downwards. If I set the width to a large number, it will line the buttons up correctly, but it makes strange things happen if I add a :hover pseudo-class.
How could this be done in HTML/CSS? Or is it only possible using JavaScript? If so, what could be a simple "out-of-the-way" approach of doing this?
Add white-space:nowrap; to div.popout.
This will prevent line breaks between the buttons.
Basically, I have a form, outside of that form in this random space on my page I want to position a div (containing two buttons). I've looked at using absolute positioning. However, it is positioning it outside of the page wrapper.
How can I get the positioning to be specified from the corner point of the actual page and not the window?
How can I get the positioning to be
specified from the corner point of the
actual page and not the window?
You need to add position: relative to the element you would like the top and left values to be offset from.
That might be your form, or it might be your #container/#wrapper element.
See here for details and a visual: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/
Looks like you have your answer by now. But ill post this anyways.
A simple and short example which shows how relative positioning to parent is done.
http://jsfiddle.net/EadXw/
If you want it positioned top:0;left:0 on the page, place it immediately after the <body> tag.
If it is wrapped in anything the containers may change it's position. Make sure it is independant and not influenced by any containers.
Sounds like you should read up a bit on the flow of the DOM.
Positioning with CSS and HTML
Make sure your <form> element wraps your whole "page" and that the <div> with the buttons is the first child of <form>.
When you do this you can add the rule position:relative to the form and position:absolute to the <div> and move it around with top and left.
Another option is to have no position rule on the form and have position:relative on the <div>. This is more compatible with iPad and iPhone devices, which don't like absolute positioning. When you go for this approach be sure to have a fixed height for the <div> and a negative margin-bottom of the same size.
I have a CSS tooltip, with CSS3 fade in, with z-indexes set to 999. When I hover over the link, the tooltip itself pushes my other content down, it's meant to be above, not inline, although I've used a span and converted it to block..
Here is an example of what I'm going for, how can I stop it from pushing the content down?
Thanks.
Display:block doesn't take an element out of the page flow, it simply pushes it onto its own new line. Using position:absolute - as recommended by other posters - should work for you. Position:absolute will set a position (such as top:0px; left:20px;) to the browser window overall unless there is a parent with position:relative set (which would then become the point of reference). An example of this second type would be positioning a link exactly 30px from the right within a given content div - regardless of where that div is placed on the page.
Position:relative can be used to position an element relative to its original position in the natural page flow, and it leaves a space where the element would have been. Position:fixed can be used for elements that should not move when the page is scrolled (such as a fixed navigation bar, page branding, or footer). Position:static is the default position setting, and should be used when you need to override another position type.
If you're using a span for the tooltip text within another element - you'll likely want to set the parent element to position:relative, and set the inner span to position:absolute. You'll need to set a top and left value to adjust where exactly your tooltip text falls (ie. above or below the parent element, to the left or the right).
I hope this is helpful.
Absolute position the tooltip (set the container's position to relative and the absolute position will be relative to the container).
Did you make sure the tooltip css position value it absolute? (or at least not static).